Men live and die for an Idea
But the Idea is immortal

It can be prosecuted
It can be be judged
It can be prohibited
It can be sentenced to death

but the idea still lives
in the minds of men

wherever there is
side by side misery and struggle

sometimes It arises here,
sometimes It there, It continue its way through the centuries

injustice trembles face to It

to the oppressed It points the way
towards a better future

one in which it enters
no longer feels isolated

because above all is the idea.

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Les hommes vivent et meurent pour une IdEe
mais L'IdEe est immortelle

on peut la poursuivre,
on peut la juger,
on peut l'interdire,
on peut la condamner A mort

mais l'IdEe continue A vivre
dans l'esprit des hommes

elle est partout oU existent
cOte A cOte la misEre et la lutte

elle surgit tantOt ici,
tantOt là, elle poursuit son chemin A travers les siEcles

l'injustice tremble devant elle

aux opprimEs elle indique la voie
vers un avenir meilleur

celui en qui elle pEnEtre
ne se sent plus isolE

car au dessus de tout est l'IdEe.

Movie in domain public by Berthold Bartosch. (Director, Producer, Animator, Cinematographer) Screenplay from the book and woodcuts by Frans Masereel.
Mash up music Arthur Honegger (performed by Les Ondes Musicales de Maurice Martenot) Parrhesia Sound System in free share under licence C Reaction http://morne.free.fr/Necktar7/creaction.htm

Extract from Night Of Pan album available there http://www.archive.org/details/night_of_pan_A_side


This movie is part of the collection: Short Format Films

Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: berthold bartosch; idea; snippet; idee; 1932; 1934; parrhesia sound system; domain public; free; c reaction; freedom; early; animation; poetry; masterpiece; subversive; art; avantgarde; indignados; anonymous

Creative Commons license: Public Domain Mark 1.0

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